The local merchants of Prato
Subtitle: small entrepreneurs in the late medieval economy
By: Richard K. Marshall.
Series: The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;; 117th ser. (1999); Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;; 117th ser.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Small business -- Italy -- Prato -- History -- To 1500; Prato (Italy) -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500; Prato (Italy) -- Economic conditions -- To 1500
Description: "Located just ten miles from Florence and completely integrated into that city's economy, the small fourteenth-century Italian town of Prato lived mostly in the shadow of its larger neighbor. Its merchants and small businessmen and women would be forgotten today but for the survival of an unusual number of documents from Prato - detailed account books that preserve line-by-line records of business transactions. In no other Italian town - not even Florence - did account books survive in such quantity.

Mining this unique resource, Richard K. Marshall throws new light on the everyday business life of Renaissance Italy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.